Election 2016: Chris Christie Embraces Nuclear Energy Industry That Has Backed Him

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4. If Donald Trump declared that the sky was blue, it wouldn't make it green.

And if Bishop Tutu declares that so called "renewable energy" is "green," that doesn't mean that the two trillion dollars squandered on the enterprise in the last ten years resulted in meaningful energy.

Irrespective of what Bishop Tutu thinks, the squandering of two trillion dollars on toxic materials to make so called "renewable energy" facilities has further impoverished, and not enriched the poor, particularly because it is poor people who have to dig cadmium, for instance, to make cadmium based solar cells.

Whatever.

What I have observed of anti-nukes in general, is that they can't think clearly and frequently appeal to logical fallacies.

In this case the transparent case of bad thinking is the fallacy known as Guilt by Association.

I have never met a rote anti-nuke, on line or anywhere else, who can think clearly or, for that matter, make even a stab at a rational argument. They are the sort of people who cause the burning of coal, oil and gas to run computers to tell us about an atom of Fukushima cesium in a tuna fish while 7 million people die each year from air pollution.

Lancet 2012, 380, 2224–60: For air pollution mortality figures see Table 3, page 2238 and the text on page 2240.

As Jim Hansen pointed out, nuclear energy saves lives, approximately two million since the commercial nuclear enterprise became the largest, by far, source of climate change gas free, and air pollution free energy.

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895

It follows that anti-nuke bad thinking, insipid rhetoric, and mindless regurgitation of junk of paranoid fantasies from their self referential circle of fools, cost lives.

It is a moral imperative to confront ignorance wherever it raises its ugly head.